Carburetor tobeusedinthe manufacture of water-gas



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CARBURETOR T0 BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATER GAS. No. 348,917.

Patented Sept. 7, 1886,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRIOK CHARLES KNIESE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CARBURETOR TO BE USED INTHE MANUFACTURE OF WATER-GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,917, dated September 7, 1886.

Application filed April 8, 1886. Serial No.,l!l8,l9l. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDRICK CHARLEs KNIEsE, of the city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Carburetors to be used in the Manufacture of Tater-Gas, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to certain improvements in an apparatus for carbureting generator or water gas preparatory to the fixingoperation, in which the said gas is converted into an illuminating-gas.

In the drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure I is a sectional elevation of the improved carburetor. Fig. II is a section of Fig. I, taken on the dotted line o: x. Fig. III is a perspective View of a part of the apparatus on an enlarged scale. Figs. IV and 'V illustrate modifications in the construction and arrangement of certain parts of the apparatus, as hereinafter described.

A is the casing of the carburetor, and a, b, and c are partitions therein. The partitions a and c extend from the bottom of the casingA to near its top, and the one, b, from the top to near the' bottom. By this construction the generator-gas which enters at d in passing` to the outlet-pipe c has to take a circuitous passage, as will be readily understood by reference to the drawings. It is not absolutely necessary that the partitions a, b, and c should be shorter than the casin g to produce the passages f, g, and h, as these partitions could extend the full length of the casing and be perforated to form the said passages.

The chambers IS, O, D, and E, into which the casing is divided by the partitions a, b, and c, have sheet-metal strips i, arranged as shel ves, which are inclined in opposite directions-that is to say, they are in vertical rows, and each row consists of a series of shelves connected to form a vertical zigzag partition. The adjoining zigzag partitions are placed so as to interlap, as shown, in order that hydrocarbon dropped from the supply-pipe F to the uppermost shelf of cach vertical zigzag partition is transferred in descending from one partition to another in drops, and is caused to traverse a large surface of shelving.

To prevent thehydrocarbon from vfollowing the zigzag surface of the partitions, instead of dropping from one partition to another, IproA vide the said partitions with lips r, which extend from the angles nl., as shown in Figs. I

and III.

The apparatus is heated by means of steampipes a, preferably arranged in gangs. These gangs connect with others situated at the bottom of the chambers B, C, D, and E, as shown. I place the steam-pipes n directly under the lips k or beneath the angles on., in order that the heat radiating from them will act directly on thehydrocarbon as the same drops from one shelf to another, and also heat the lips from which the hydrocarbon drips. By this arrangement I am enabled to vaporize nearly or the whole body of hydrocarbon introduced to the apparatus, and before t-hc same reaches the bottom. It will be understood that the vapor of the hydrocarbon is taken up by the generatorgas in its circuitous passage from the inlet d to the outlet e.

As the extending lips, which prevent a continuous flow of hydrocarbon from the upper to the lower portion to the chambers, are the leading features of construction of the apparatus, I do not wish to be restricted to the construction and arrangement shown in Figs. I

and III, as various other arrangements could 4one section of partition to another; but I am not aware that before my invention such an arrangement of partitions with lips have been provided with steam-pipes placed under the said lips to heat them for the purpose described. I do not therefore claim, broadly, the zigzag partitions in a carburetor 5 but Vhat I do claim as my invention is 1. In an apparatus for carbu reti n g generatorgas, a series of shelves with lips, as described,

combined with steain-pipes to heat the said gas, a series of shelves connected to form zig- Shelves and pipes to conduct the hydrocarbon zag partitions having extensions or lips leadto the shelves, substantially as specified. ing l'ronl the angles where the shelves connect, i 5 2. In an apparatus for earbureting generatorcombined with steam-pipes placed under the 5 gas, a series of shelves connected to form versaid lips and pipes to conduct the hydrocartical zigzag partitions7 combined with steam` l bon to the said shelves, substantially as and pipes arranged parallel with the said shelves for the purpose specified.

and situated directly under the points of interf i f 4 sectionor angles, and pipes to conduct the liy- FLEDRICK CHARLES IXNIESB' 1o drocarbon to the said shelves, snbstantiall y as Witnesses:

specified. Y p XVM. T. HOWARD, 3. In an apparatus for carbnreting generator- DANL. FISI-IER. 

